3D Object Recognition with only one Camera

From now on bin picking is possible without any greater effort. Hence, the software library for machine vision Halcon 8.0 by MVTec enables the identification of arbitrarily orientated objects as a standard technology (3rd Generation Matching). Up to now, Halcons powerful shape-based matching already allowed the fast, reliable, and robust identification of 2D objects. With the new version 8.0, this also applies for 3D objects in arbitrary 3D positions and orientations. For this purpose, only a CAD model of the object has to be imported and trained. For this, the software library was extended to support the industrial standard to read DXF files. During the training of the CAD model, it computes the two-dimensional projections of the possible 3D poses of the object onto the image. Therefore, the imaging system needs only one camera.